.Reading time 1 minute.

If you have never been a stay at home mom, I really highly recommend it.  Seriously, at this stage in life I get so much time to think.  So If you like thinking and digesting things over and over in your head, this is the life for you.

It usually goes:  Thinking: about the fires in Greece

Thinking: about the families of the Coal Miners

Thinking: about this whole culture we find ourselves in

Thinking: what it means to be a disciple.

Thinking: Why Did My Bath-Towels All Turn Green?

and in-between there’s lot’s of tiny little thoughts about supper, dirty diapers, shopping lists, changing the flower bed plans, crumbs all over the floor, dirt in the bathtub kind of thoughts.  I think in some ways you lose yourself being a SAHM, but in a lot of ways you find who you really are.

Side Note:  Never wash your new khacki bath-towels with a navy blanket purchased in Guatemala.  It just does not work. They will turn a bright aqua color.  Then these aqua towels will beed over everything else, so all your towels will be the same muddy-aqua hue.
Will I never learn? I can see mom shaking her head at my inexperience….

 

Elena Quotes

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  “Where’s Bill?”  This morning after she woke up and didn’t see her grandfather like the last several mornings.

   “Let’s go on the jumpaline.”  The trampoline, her favorite pastime.

  “Mom you have to cry like this, Waaaaagh, Waagh, you want to mom?”  She loves when I fake cry.

  “Jesus is not helping”  When I told her Jesus could help her not to be scared at night.

  “Making a mess”  When I asked her what she was doing this morning while I was in the garden picking beans.

 

 Now, just in case everyone is breathlessly wondering what I got Gene for his Birthday:

I played it safe. And got him a gift card. To Circuit City. Where he can choose a toy. He said he’ll probably go with the Ipod. To save our Cd’s. They are always getting scratched. We don’t know why. I say it’s the drywall dust. He says not. I say what then? He says nothing. Short sentences are fun. Well, that was just a tiny update. I have to go. Tomorrow we are going to Ohio. For a week.

Goodbye, 
Andrea